The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) is currently preparing the proposal for renewal of its funding from the NSF MRSEC program. A critical deadline in that process is approaching.
The deadline for prospective IRGs to submit proposals to participate in the CEM’s renewal proposal is January 15, 2013.
The full RFP, which describes how to submit the proposal, can be read here.
Four labs were represented in the CEM Gingerbread Science Competition held on December 19th, 2012. Teams from the NanoSystems Lab, as well as Hammel, Johnston-Halperin and Gupta labs created representations of the work conducted in their labs entirely from edible materials. The Hammel lab team won the competition with their representation of an attocube tower and cantilever, movable graphene sample, oscilloscope, and cryogenic dewar.
The final creations of the teams can be seen at the NSL Kiosk on the 2nd floor south bridgeway in the Physics Research Building.
The proposal process for the 2013 funding cycle of the OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program has commenced. Full details, including the RFP, can be found here.
The OSU Women in Physics blog provides an inside look into a day in the life of a physicist. Please check out and spread the word about this great resource for young people who are interested in science.
Exciting results which report an amplified “spin-Seebeck effect”, conducted by Christopher Jaworski, Roberto Myers, Zeke Johnston-Halperin and Jos Heremans, were published in the July 12th issue of Nature. The researchers are studying a magnetic effect which converts heat to electricity, called the “spin-Seebeck effect”, in which a flow of heat creates a current of electron spins in a magnetic material. This generates a voltage in an adjacent metal. The discovered “giant spin-Seebeck effect” was detected using a non-magnetic semiconductor and resulted in a 1-million-fold increase in power. The ultimate result of this research could be electronics that recycle heat into electricity, or a solid-state engine which converts heat to electricity.
Press release from OSU research news: http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/giantseebeck.htm
Full text of the publication: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v487/n7406/full/nature11221.html